Powers/Abilities: The Whirldemons drain
life-energy from other beings to survive. They can generate
powerful tornados, form magical bonds, etc. Though a single
Whirldemon has proven capable of entrapping even Dr. Strange,
they are exquisitely sensitive to the power of the Enigma Force.
They possess telepathy and are immune to aging and conventional
injury.

Traits: The Whirldemons are predatory,
territorial creatures seeking to rule all they survey and willing
to destroy any that get in their way.

History:
(Micronauts I#35 (fb)) - Untold millions, if not billions of
years ago, the Whirldemons lived on Earth--"part and parcel
of that primitive era, feeding off the life-energies of the
mindless lifeforms with whom <they> shared the Earth.

(Micronauts I#35 (fb)) - Millions of years ago
(see comments), Prince Wayfinder led his followers, the Wanderers
to Earth. Believing it to be uninhabited. Wayfinder claimed Earth
in the name of the homeless and the displaced, vowing that all
should be content and wage war no more. The Whirldemons touched
the Wanderers mind, learned who they were, and determined to
carve Wayfinder's vow on his tombstone.
As Wayfinder 's people erected a city, the
Whirldemons plotted to bury him beneath its walls. The
Whirldemons attacked, but they found that Wayfinder and his
people were strong, bearing arms empowered by the Sword in the
Star. However, the Whirldemons were many and the Wanderers were
few. Their city fell, and children cried for parents lost in
battle.

(Micronauts I#31 (fb) / Micronauts I#35 (fb)) -
Finally, in the face of the Whirldemons' assault--which
threatened to overwhelm even the mighty Agni, Kali, Mara, Yama,
Wayfinder called upon the Sword to save them, and the Sword
filled him with its power, the Enigma Force, transforming him
into the first Time Traveler. Employing his new power, the
Traveler bound the Whirldemons so that they could not stay his
escape, and he then opened a dimensional portal, creating a
subatomic Microverse to which he led the Wanderers. Thus the
Microverse was brought into being and populated, while the
Whirldemons remained imprisoned for millions of years.

(Micronauts I#31 (fb)) - The whirlwinds created
by the Whirldemons destroyed all evidence of Wayfinder's city.

(Micronauts I#34 (fb) - BTS) - Between the
newly created Microverse and the Earth dimension, Wayfinder/Time
Traveler through up a barrier known as the Spacewall.

(Micronauts I#33) - Having traveled back in
time and viewed Wayfinder's encounter with the Whirldemons, Dr.
Strange traveled to the Microverse to learn what had happened
next. Arriving on the planet Hoemworld's Deadzone, Strange came
to the tomb of Wayfinder, little realizing that a Whirldemon was
coalescing behind him.

(Micronauts I#34) - As Strange approached the
tomb of Wayfinder, the Whirldemon grabbed him from behind.

(Micronauts I#35) - Whirldemons attacked
Strange, telling him that he would never unlock the Tomb of
Wayfinder, after which they detailed their past encounters with
Wayfinder and then announced their intent to conquer Earth and
the Microverse. The Micronauts then arrived in Deadzone, and
Fireflyte used her Enigma Force-derived powers to saving Strange
from the Whirldemon. The now-corrupt King Argon led his Dog
Soldiers and Death-Squad to try to steal the Keys from Rann to
usurp the Enigma Force for himself. The Whirldemons attacked in
an effort to prevent Rann from using the Keys to awaken the
Enigma Force to unlock Wayfinder's tomb. After initially opposing
them, Argon convinced the Whirldemons to join forces with him,
making the deal that they would be given dominion of Earth and
Argon would rule the Microverse. The Whirldemons cast illusions
into the minds of the Rann, disorienting him and making him drop
the Keys, but he swiftly recovered them and threw off their
influence. With the aid of Fireflyte, Rann inserted the Keys into
Wayfinder's tomb, unlocking it and revealing the Sword in the
Star. The Sword merged Rann and Strange and imbued them with the
Uni-Power; as Captain Universe, they unified and strengthened the
Spacewall separating the Earth dimension and the Microverse,
preventing the two universes from merging and annihilating each
other. The Unipower then returned to the Enigma Force, while
Fireflyte used the last of her power to bind the Whirldemons for
all eternity, dying in the effort. While her song was the
vengeful, it did not slay, showing mercy to those to whom mercy
is an alien concept.

Comments: Created by Bill Mantlo, Pat
Broderick, and Danny Bulanadi.

I guess the Whirldemons
might qualify as one of the Elder Races that ruled Earth in the
distant past. Perhaps they are Elderspawn, a race descended from
one of the Elder Gods, or perhaps they are of extradimensional
origin. Or something else.

The Whirldemons reference
existing at the beginning of time, but that may be hyperbole.

When Wayfinder and his
people arrived on Earth, a little green dinosaur was seen in the
background. That would normally mean they had to have landed
before 65 million years BC, though it could be that they landed
in the Savage Land.